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vcmac - 26 May 2005 05:20 GMT

Is there any Carbon API available to get CPU serial number in Macosx?

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-Hemant

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David Phillip Oster - 26 May 2005 17:09 GMT

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> Is there any Carbon API available to get CPU serial number in Macosx?

PowerPC CPUs don't have a serial number. If you want a semi-unique,
semi-persistent machine identifier, you may be able to poke around in
the registry to find something you can use. Look at the documentation
for IOMasterPort() and IOServiceMatching().

So far as I know, these calls are Mach-O onlym, and there is no
PowerPlant support for them.

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